For your consideration:

Point 1: Hated Taxes
Jackson owed millions of dollars in taxes he deemed unfair

Point 2: Supported Patients’ Rights
Jackson had ELECTIVE surgery that would not be approved by socialized medical system

Point 3: Hated Trial Lawyers
Jackson would rather settle civil disputes out of court rather than let trial lawyers make money on jury awards

All aboard the Straight Talk Express! 

9 :10 p.m. After they’re done asking the candidates about whether we’re headed for a recession, let’s ask Greenspan about shaking hands and kissing babies.

IOTUS adds to the Debate Drinking Game this rule: Drink when an issue group is mentioned, i.e. Club for Growth.

9:16 p.m.  Oh yeah, Fred Thompson is still in it.  He just stood up for Giuliani.  Take that McCain lovers!  I’m not necessarily a Thompson supporter, but I do admire anyone that doesn’t want to run for president. 

LOTUS Drinking Game Rule: Finish your drink when Reagan is mentioned.

9:18 p.m. Carl Cameron reminds us that no Republican has ever won the nomination without winning South Carolina.  Cameron asks Huckabee about the Reagan Coaltion and whether he’s distanced himself from it.  It sounds like Huckabee just gave the working definition for “compassionate conservatism.”

9:25 p.m. Romney: Knowing how America works is more important than knowing how Washington works.

9:26 p.m. Thompson puts the smack-down on Huckabee.  Hot!  Thompson says: That’s not the model of the Reagan revolution. That’s the model of the Democrat party.

It’s possible that Thompson is strong enough a candidate to wake up a dead campaign with one answer.

9:29 p.m. Giuliani says the Reagan revolution was about being inclusive. Tear down this wall and give me a hug!

Here come the foreign policy questions.  McCain is getting antsy.

9:43 p.m. Romney accuses Paul of reading Ahmadinejad’s press releases.  Cheers and Jeers.  Paul appears to make some response and I’d love to know what it was.

9:45 p.m.  McCain defends the surge.  “Bringing the troops home is not going to be decided by any politician.  It’s going to be decided by the man that should have been Time magazine’s Man of the Year, General David Petraeus.”  McCain also claims to be the only one on the stage to support the surge.  Giuliani calls him on it and says many of the people on the stage supported the surge.  McCain counterpoint: Nuh uhhh!

LOTUS wonders how PJB would answer some of these questions.  Time for the IOTUS and LOTUS’s texting comedy pyramid!

IOTUS: What would Patrick J. Buchanan Do?

LOTUS: PJB is my homeboy.

IOTUS: PJB is my copilot.

LOTUS: PJB loves me this I know, ’cause the Bible tells me so.

IOTUS: What a friend we have in PJB. He walks with me. He talks with me and tells me I am his own.

LOTUS: When you saw only one set of footprints in the sand it is when PJB carried you.

IOTUS concedes, LOTUS wins.

10:15 p.m. Oh, these guys are still talking. Giuliani just listed his foreign policy credentials.  McCain answers: I did it not for profit, for patriotism.

Giuliani did it all for the nookie.  (That could be the wine talking.)

Lightening Round!

10:25 p.m.  McCain says his immigration bill failed because it was so awesome that the American people were afraid that it wouldn’t be enforced.  McCain recalls a serviceman’s wife who was in endangered of being deported.  Uh, if they’re married, why is she in danger of being deported?  I’ve heard McCain bring this up before.  This is akin to the pro-abortion people that talk about the 11-year-old girl who was raped by her father and then became pregnant. What about her?!?!?!?  Ugh…

It’s over.  I think the edge goes to Fred Thompson.  What are your thoughts?

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This has been long overdue.  As JOTUS said, “He’s old, but he’s still got it.”  JOTUS also said he wants more pictures of cheerleaders.  Green Bay Packers QB Brett Favre is the cute football player of the week.

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I thought I’d switch it up and give the ladies pictures of the NFL’s cutest coach.  I give you Tampa Bay Bucs coach John (Chucky) Gruden.  I don’t care what the feminists say — angry white men are the sexiest.

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This week’s cute football player of the week is the Denver Broncos’ John Lynch.  I, however, prefer him in the Tampa Bay uniform.

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This week’s cute football player is Oakland Raiders safety Jarrod Cooper.

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This week’s cute football player of the week is Tamp Bay Bucs LB Barrett Ruud.

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After last week’s loss to the New England Patriots, I have to show Indianapolis Colt’s QB Peyton Manning some love. 

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This week’s cute football player of the week is Houston Texans WR Kevin Walters.  Thanks to Karen calling my attention to him!  Unfortunately, I couldn’t find many close-ups.

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This week’s cute football player is San Diego Chargers’ Igor Olshansky.  I’m giving San Diego and Halloween a shout-out.  Could he be more perfect?